Typical of This Administration

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I think your "Jesus wept" comment is pretty absurd. There is no evidence that any of these kids were in any type of life and death danger back in their countries. Sure those countries are far more dangerous than the US but so are hundreds of other countries across the world. Do you think the US should take in all the children of the world who live in fairly dangerous countries?

When I hear there is genocide going on somewhere, I'm in favor of us helping any way we can. And when we hear children in Africa are dying of diseases that can be cured with medication, I am in favor of sending medication there. I don't mind paying for it.

But I don't think the US should take in any child who wants to come here that lives in a fairly dangerous country. By the way, there are far more dangerous countries in the world than most of the countries in Central America. Countries like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, etc are far more dangerous. Some of the countries in Central America were really dangerous back in the 1970s and 1980s when they were having civil wars there, but they're not that bad now, not compared to other places.

Okay. Here:

How Mexico's Drug Cartels Recruit Child Soldiers as Young as 11:
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/mexico-child-soldiers/

Mexican Drug Cartels Targeting and Killing Children
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...b9C_story.html

Mexico's Drug War is Changing Children
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/27/166027...ging-childhood

Mexican and Central American children are coming here because we're the closest relatively stable nation. It has nothing to do with the USA being special. If they were closer to Europe, they'd be going to Western Europe.

If you don't think things have gotten much, much worse in Mexico and Central America over the past few years, you haven't been paying attention. Well, except for the Honduras, which I think has had one of the highest murder rates in the world since the 1990s.

Okay, I did google that to be sure- here are the nations with the highest homicide rates, according to the UN:

COUNTRIES
Honduras: 90.4 (per 100,000)
Venezuela: 53.7
Belize: 44.7
El Salvador: 41.2
Guatemala: 39.9
Jamaica: 39.3
Swaziland: 33.8
Saint Kitts and Nevis: 33.6
South Africa: 31.0
Colombia: 30.8